No more

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 2003)

Well, that's it. After seeing "Shallow Graves" and "Trainspotting", I had sworn loyalty to director Danny Boyle. But after "The Beach", "A Life Less Ordinary" and "28 days later", I'm cutting off. "28 days later" is a tribute to the classic "(night, dawn, day)of the dead" series, plus a bit of "The Omega Man". It fails. The characters all behave erratically. I understand that one underlying theme in Danny Boyle's movies is how a group of people start out as having one type of relationship, and then changing *gradually* into another completely different thing. But in this case the changes are sudden, with practically no explanation, unbelievable. Another thing going against it is the weird digital/video resolution chosen for the film, plus the over used shaky scene recourse. ACK! Add to that some large plot-holes. Say what you may about the "night of the dead" series, but the storyline was impeccable. (once you buy the living-dead premise, of course)
I can't think of a nice thing to say about this movie... err...the "father" gave a decent performance, err.. and the psycho sergeant was mildly intriguing, but mainly because the other characters were so awful.